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Jewel Brown can't stand for long because scoliosis and osteoporosis trigger burning back pain when she's on her feet. She lost partial sight in her right eye after surgery to remove a large tumor from her brain about a decade ago.

We don't think of Texas barbecue as being a seasonal cuisine. After all, we can get beef and pork year-round. And it's not like beef born in January is tastier or juicier than beef born in any other month.

Megan Kruse will discuss and sign "Call Me Home," 7 p.m. Monday, Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonnet; 713-523-0701 or brazosbookstore.com . The summer I was nine, my father came home with a pig in the back of the truck.

Is Robert Durst a fan of the opera? He was listed as one of the donors for Houston Grand Opera's weekend fund-raiser "Bloody Good Time on the Bayou." Was it THE Robert Durst? -the notorious and eccentric gazillionaire who once again stands accused of foul play?

Dear Mick LaSalle: I absolutely loved "The Lone Ranger" for all the tongue-in-cheek campiness and for the sheer delight in reliving my days of serials in the movies. Your childhood was obviously not as entertaining as mine was, and you take yourself way too seriously.

As I mention each year at the dawn of a new Top 100 Restaurants list , these are not necessarily Houston's fanciest restaurants, nor the most expensive, nor the ones most worthy of multiple stars in some fading fine-dining universe where napery and carpeting and luxury ingredients mattered intensely.

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"Woman in Gold" is a very good story meekly told. It's a dramatization of one woman's story to recover the art looted from one Jewish family by the Nazis, rendered here in mostly flat tones and trite dialogue.